Sennelier Half-Stick Soft Pastel Sets

Recognizing the fact that purchasing a set of pastels is a major investment, Sennelier makes its pastels available in half-sticks, giving you twice as many pastels for the money, and allowing you to sample twice as many rich, wonderful colors.

Sennelier Soft Pastels have been made by hand since 1900, when Edgar Degas asked Sennelier to create pastels in true-to-life dark colors. Still made today with 100% pure pigment, using no binders or fillers, the result is an exceptionally soft, lightfast, watersoluble pastel in colors that are unparalleled for their intensity and depth.

Set of 80, Plein Air Landscape — The 80 colors in this half-stick set were chosen for their ability to mix to create the broadest possible range of landscape colors. This set includes 40 of Sennelier’s original, best-selling colors plus 40 newer colors. It’s perfect for travel and on-location work. Each half stick pastel measures approximately 1¼" long × ½" in diameter (32 mm × 13 mm). This is an economical way to try out a large number of colors.

Warning — These products may contain Titanium Dioxide which is a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer. Pending confirmation from the manufacturer, we are labeling these products with the Prop 65 icon. As we learn more, we’ll update this page.

Sennelier is an awesome brand I have their acrylics and pastels (both oil and dry). The colors are amazing. I studied art history and really love being able to use tools like the old masters did. I'm sure they've been improved over the years. These need a fixative applied after painiting to protect the art.

This is one of the media I use in my mixed media paintings. They are the softest and brightest soft pastels I've ever used. The pro and con is that they are 'extra soft' which means that they obviously get small fast but you can clearly feel the softness and the high quality of the pastel as you draw. This is my new favorite brand and I will continue to buy them.

Reading reviews from other people I decided this was a good choice and my decision was confirmed when I started using these pastels. The price seemed reasonable enough, the product was well packaged and it seemed no time between placing the order and receiving the product. I trust DickBlick and will continue to order and recommend their site.

I use the soft pastels in my art class and this set has a wide variety of colors to choose from. I love the Sennelier pastels they go on smooth and blend perfectly. Of all the different soft pastels I have used this brand is my favorite and I am slowly collecting the whole set.

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